Radeon HD 6990 vs Radeon R7 370

Radeon HD 6990
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 8 Mar 2011
Radeon HD 6990
Radeon R7 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R7 370

Summary

Synthetic performance index

  • Radeon HD 6990
    130%
  • Radeon R7 370
    100%

Relative performance

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6990

Around 30% higher average synthetic performance.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 370

265 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6990 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6990

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6990

The Radeon HD 6990 is the better performing card based on the synthetic benchmarks used (1 benchmarks).


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 6990Radeon R7 370
GPU NameAntilles (Antilles XT)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process40 nmvs28 nm
Die Size389 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors2,640 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders1536vs1024
Compute Units24vs16
Core clock830 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs32vs32
TMUs96vs64

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 6990Radeon R7 370
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bit x2vs256 bit
Memory Speed1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 6990Radeon R7 370
TDP375 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date8 Mar 2011vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6990
    26.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 6990
    79.70 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    62.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 6990
    160.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 6990
    2550.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 370
    1996.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better

Synthetic benchmarks

3DMark 11

  • Radeon HD 6990
    10720
  • Radeon R7 370
    8210

Points (higher is better)